Renju is the professional variant of Go-Moku and uses more sophisticated rules. In renju the black player (the beginner of a game) is not allowed to make double-threes, double-fours or more than five in a row. Renju also uses sophisticated opening rules. This homepage is primarily for renju but it also covers other five-in-a-row games, such as, free-played Go-Moku, Five-In-A-Row and Pente. If you wish to see an introduction ( a FAQ) to renju and other five-in-a-row games including the rules and the history select the rules- and the history page.
Possibly you want to read, review or copy renju´s official rules.
The Swedish Magazine "Fem I Rad" No 2
1995 is now available
with Table of contents in Swedish (med svensk innehållsförteckning)
with Table of contents in English.
There are 26 opening patterns of renju. From the Renju Opening Page you can find them all. For the most opening patterns you are also able to see the best and sometimes also some bad alternatives for the 5th move in the most usual variations.
On the problems page you will find 20 renjuproblems with answers. and if you solve our 4 test renju problems on the problems page you will be awarded a kyu-degree.
You can choose, look at and save 143 gif-file photos from the renju world if you go to the RIF PhotoPage.
Do you want to have the free version of Oleg Stepanov´s program in which you can study and review and replay more than 1000 games, among them several games from the last three World Championship tournaments. After installing the program press F1, F8, F3 and browse with the arrow keys between the games. Choose: r2dafree.zip(112 Kb). The full version of this program includes more than 10 000 games played by the best players of the world. You can read about other available analytical programs at the rules and the history page .
There are several five in a row programs at different FTP archives around the World; for example, some easier Windows Go Moku-programs as gomoku.zip (52 Kb) or gomoku2.zip(372 Kb) or DOS-program pente.zip (20 Kb).
If you use UNIX you may read about and check out pente game by William Shubert.
If you use Amiga you may check out GoMoku game by Magnus Enarsson (25 Kb).
You will find the results of the 1995 tournaments and many historical major tournaments on the results page . There you can find all the World Championship Tournaments, the 1994 European Championship, the Meijin-Finals in Japan, the Supreme League (High League) in Russia and all Swedish Champions.
Now the new version of the book Renju For Beginners is available.You can see some pages of this book here.
Here you can find more information about magazines and books on renju.
Go to the page with addresses to RIF Member-Countries and Connection Men of RIF.
Go to the article "A way to improvement of player's standard" by Alexander Nosovsky
The Renju World Magazine No 19 now is available.
4 future international tournaments in Renju:
You are able to find information about this server on the URL-address: http://140.188.198.26:8080/~pbmserv. It is possible to play renju, free gomoku or pente with other players in the world using this server. First you have to signup to the server. Then you are able to send a message to all other players that have signed up asking for someone to play with.
Possibly you are more theoretically interested in renju. If so, check the proof that the beginner is always able to win when playing free GoMoku. It is a postscript file and maybe you have to get for example the program Ghostview to be able to see it.
We are acquanted with many DOS and Windows programs, but there are also other programs available at other FTP archives around the world (If you know about a good program and its location, let us know.). You can find them by using an Archie Server. Just write: renju, gomoku orpente and press "Do It!") for example MS160 Archie Server Gateway in Norway. You can also find programs or other information about the games by using some search machine for example, Lycos.
If you are relatively new to the Internet and do not have the programs necessary to unzip the above mentioned files download Pkunzip or WinZip from an FTP site, or from your Internet provider or from the Archie Server mentioned above.
Renju does not have its own newsgroup, but renju and other five-in-a-row games are discussed in the newsgroup rec.games.abstract. If you wish to start a Renju Newsgroup, please let us know.
The rules of renju in Finnish language
Renju is a game of strategy and renju players are usually interested in other such games. Here are some links to to pages with strategy games:
Games Domain-Games Related Information Site
Xiangqi (Chinese-chess) Home Page
Pieter Stouten´s information page on Shogi (Japanese Chess)
The Swedish Go Info WWW-page with links to other Go-sites
Information about Jönköping in English with photo of Jönköping
The University of
Jönköping shows this photo of Jönköping (90 Kb) with a view from the
Jönköping city park
The
University of Jönköpings shows this photo of Jönköping (143 Kb) with a
view from above lake Vättern
Photos of outdoors art from Jönköping with texts in Swedish
Renju Electronic Newsletter via e-mail is free to RIF member-countries and for connection men of RIF. However, individual players may also subscribe free-of-charge. The Renju Electronic Newsletter will bring you the latest renju news from around the world.
If you wish to receive a free subscribtion to the Renju Electronic Newsletter, please, send your E-mail address, your mailing address, your telephone number and your FAX number to Tommy Maltell E-mail Questions about renju or the Federation may also be sent to the same E-mail address.
Tommy Maltell
President of Renju International Federation
Mailing
address: Box 249, S-551 14 Jönköping, SWEDEN
Fax +46-36-120417
